Definitions for tender
ˈtɛn dərten·der

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tender, legal tender, stampnoun

   something that can be used as an official medium of payment

2. attendant, attender, tendernoun

   someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

3. bid, tendernoun

   a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

4. tendernoun

   car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

5. tender, ship's boat, pinnace, cutternoun

   a boat for communication between ship and shore

6. tender, supply shipadjective

   ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

7. tenderadjective

   given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

   "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother"

8. sensitive, sore, raw, tenderadjective

   hurting

   "the tender spot on his jaw"

9. tenderadjective

   young and immature

   "at a tender age"

10. affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warmadjective

    having or displaying warmth or affection

    "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace"

11. tenderadjective

    easy to cut or chew

    "tender beef"

12. tender, untoughenedadjective

    physically untoughened

    "tender feet"

13. crank, cranky, tender, tippyadjective

    (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

14. tenderverb

    (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

    "tender green shoots"

15. tenderverb

    offer or present for acceptance

16. offer, bid, tenderverb

    propose a payment

    "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting"

17. tenderverb

    make a tender of; in legal settlements

18. tender, tenderize, tenderiseverb

    make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

    "tenderize meat"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. TENDERadjective

   Etymology: tendre, French.

   1. Soft; easily impressed or injured.

   The earth brought forth the tender grass. John Milton.

   From each tender stalk she gathers. John Milton.

   2. Sensible; easily pained; soon sore.

   Unneath may she endure the flinty street,
   To tread them with her tender feeling feet. William Shakespeare.

   Leah was tender eyed, but Rachael was well-favoured. Gen. xxix. 17.

   Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces;
   but by being less exposed to the air, they become less able to endure it. Roger L'Estrange.

   The face when we are born is no less tender than any other part of the body: it is use alone hardens it, and makes it more able to endure the cold. John Locke, on Education.

   3. Effeminate; emasculate; delicate.

   When Cyrus had overcome the Lydians, that were a warlike nation, and devised to bring them to a more peaceable life, instead of their short warlike coat he clothed them in long garments like women, and instead of their warlike musick appointed to them certain lascivious lays, by which their minds were so mollified and abated, that they forgot their former fierceness, and became most tender and effeminate. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   4. Exciting kind concern.

   I love Valentine;
   His life’s as tender to me as my soul. William Shakespeare.

   5. Compassionate; anxious for another’s good.

   The tender kindness of the church it well beseemeth to help the weaker sort, although some few of the perfecter and stronger be for a time displeased. Richard Hooker, b.v.

   This not mistrust but tender love injoins. John Milton.

   Be tender hearted and compassionate towards those in want, and ready to relieve them. John Tillotson, Sermons.

   6. Susceptible of soft passions.

   Your tears a heart of flint
   Might tender make, yet nought
   Herein they will prevail. Edmund Spenser.

   7. Amorous; lascivious.

   What mad lover ever dy’d,
   To gain a soft and gentle bride?
   Or for a lady tender hearted,
   In purling streams or hemp departed? Hudibras, p. iii.

   8. Expressive of the softer passions.9. Careful not to hurt, with of.

   The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion. John Tillotson, Sermons.

   As I have been tender of every particular person’s reputation, so I have taken care not to give offence. Addison.

   10. Gentle; mild; unwilling to pain.

   Thy tender hefted nature shall not give
   Thee o’er to harshness; her eyes are fierce, but thine
   Do comfort and not burn. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   You, that are thus so tender o’er his follies,
   Will never do him good. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

   11. Apt to give pain.

   In things that are tender and unpleasing, break the ice by some whose words are of less weight, and reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance. Francis Bacon.

   12. Young; weak: as, tender age.

   When yet he was but tender bodied, a mother should not sell him. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

2. Tendernoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Offer; proposal to acceptance.

   Then to have a wretched puling fool,
   A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender,
   To answer I’ll not wed. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

   Think yourself a baby;
   That you have ta’en his tenders for true pay,
   Which are not sterling. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   The earl accepted the tenders of my service. Dryden.

   To declare the calling of the Gentiles by a free, unlimited tender of the gospel to all. Robert South, Sermons.

   Our tenders of duty every now and then miscarry. Addison.

   2. [From the adjective.]Regard; kind concern.

   Thou hast shew’d thou mak’st some tender of my life,
   In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me. William Shakespeare.

3. To Tenderverb

   Etymology: tendre, French.

   1. To offer; to exhibit; to propose to acceptance.

   Some of the chiefest laity professed with greater stomach their judgments, that such a discipline was little better than popish tyranny, disguised and tendered unto them. Richard Hooker.

   I crave no more than what your highness offer’d;
   Nor will you tender less. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   All conditions, all minds, tender down
   Their service to lord Timon. William Shakespeare.

   Owe not all creatures by just right to thee
   Duty and service, not to stay till bid,
   But tender all their pow’r? John Milton, Par. Regain’d.

   2. To hold; to esteem.

   Tender yourself more dearly;
   Or, not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
   Wringing it thus, you’ll tender me a fool. William Shakespeare.

   3. [From the adjective.]To regard with kindness. Not in use.

   I thank you, madam, that you tender her:
   Poor gentlewoman, my master wrongs her much. William Shakespeare.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tendernoun

   one who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse

2. Tendernoun

   a vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like

3. Tendernoun

   a car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water

4. Tenderverb

   to offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt

5. Tenderverb

   to offer in words; to present for acceptance

6. Tendernoun

   an offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest

7. Tendernoun

   any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract

8. Tendernoun

   the thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation

9. Tender

   easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit

10. Tender

    sensible to impression and pain; easily pained

11. Tender

    physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate

12. Tender

    susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic

13. Tender

    exciting kind concern; dear; precious

14. Tender

    careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of

15. Tender

    unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild

16. Tender

    adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain

17. Tender

    apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject

18. Tender

    heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel

19. Tendernoun

    regard; care; kind concern

20. Tenderverb

    to have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tender

   "Tender" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Tender

   ten′dėr, v.t. to stretch out or offer for acceptance, esp. to offer to supply certain commodities for a certain period at rates specified.—n. an offer or proposal, esp. of some service, also the paper containing it: the thing offered, the actual production and formal offer of a sum due in legal money, or an offer of services to be performed, in order to save the consequences of non-payment or non-performance.

2. Tender

   ten′dėr, adj. soft, delicate: easily impressed or injured: not hardy: fragile: weak and feeble: easily moved to pity, love, &c.: careful not to injure (with of): unwilling to cause pain: apt to cause pain: pathetic, expressive of the softer passions: compassionate, loving, affectionate: young and inexperienced: weakly in health: delicate, requiring careful handling: quick, keen: apt to lean over under sail.—n. Ten′der-foot, one not yet hardened to life in the prairie, mining-camp, &c.: a new-comer.—adj. Ten′der-heart′ed, full of feeling.—adv. Ten′der-heart′edly.—n. Ten′der-heart′edness.—adj. Ten′der-heft′ed (Shak.), having great tenderness.—ns. Ten′derling, one too much coddled, an effeminate fellow: one of the first horns of a deer; Ten′der-loin, the tenderest part of the loin of beef, pork, &c., lying close to the ventral side of the lumbar vertebræ.—adv. Ten′derly.—n. Ten′derness. [Fr. tendre—L. tener, allied to tenuis, thin.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. tender

   A small vessel duly commanded, and employed to attend a larger one, to supply her with stores, to carry intelligence or volunteers and impressed men to receiving ships, &c. An enemy's ship captured by cutters or boats fitted out as tenders by men-of-war, but without any commission or authority from the admiralty, will not insure a prize to the benefit of the ship. The condemnation will be as a droit of admiralty, on the principle that an officer does not retain his commission for the purposes of prize on board another ship; but if captured by one of her boats, and brought to the ship, she is good prize, as with slaves. Tender is also a synonym of crank; thus, a spar may be tender.

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   • Change
   • Medium Of Exchange
   • Offer
   • Present

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tender' in Adjectives Frequency: #862

Anagrams for tender »

1. denter

2. rented

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tender in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tender in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of tender in a Sentence

1. Chairman Robert Coury:

   As long as Mylan's share price is going up the opportunity becomes larger and larger and larger, people don't tender until the last 24 hours so we have quite a very very strong chance for a lot of activity in the last week.

2. Pascal Couasnon:

   If the sport decides to stay with 13 inch, we respect it but it would not make sense to us, that’s where we are going to wait for the next time( the contract is up for tender).

3. Edgar Allan Poe:

   Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

4. Erin Dunbar:

   This is an unbelievably tender topic to talk about with our patients because when someone is diagnosed with a glioblastoma, it is a tremendous left turn in their life. They have been told they have a highly aggressive, incurable tumor that will undoubtedly shorten their life, barring a miracle.

5. George Washington Carver:

   How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

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